FIELD NOTES Fossils
Our human species, known as Homo sapiens, most likely evolved between 150 000 and 200 000 years ago, and it is believed we originated in Africa. Recently, a team of international researchers found the earliest evidence of modem human thought and behaviour in South Africa.
But what of earlier life, of dinosaurs and such?
British men are usually credited for discovering the first dinosaur bones. Robert Plot, an English natural history scholar, was the first to describe a dinosaur bone in his book, The Natural History of, published in 1677. British natural scientists dominated dinosaur palaeontology over the next two centuries.
